Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course the poetry 's no good , ’ grumbled a friend to whom I was praising this volume . |
| 3 | Chidi Imo , with whom I was to have some great races in the future and who became a friend , was in the thick of the arguments . |
| 4 | I mean we would n't of known , I never saw that erm , you know diamond thing with , four , I mean even then I when we bought them I was thinking four sixty fives , that 'll be two sixty and erm three sixty , so you save a bit really do n't you ? |
| 5 | but the trigonometry ones you have to know what they turn into I got some things , a couple of them I was getting stuck on what I supposed to put and then I actually go too far on some 'em , I , I |
| 6 | All of us are aware of the problems of someone who was living alone and struggling to maintain a large house , but I am genuinely surprised at Conservative Members ' enthusiasm for a benefit that is clearly not targeted . |
| 7 | I got about halfway , and then wished for a spurt of invention that did n't depend upon one strident clown shaking a furious finger at someone who was standing two feet behind him . ’ |
| 8 | I have carried out several privatisations in my time in commercial and industrial departments , and my understanding of the word privatisation is that one takes something currently managed in the public sector and transfers it to the private sector — the last such transfer in which I was engaged involved British Steel . |
| 9 | One only has to look at the Shropshire structure plan in which I was involved last year , and the Department of the Environment in that case had allowed the facility for new settlement without locational criteria . |
| 10 | One must remember that Milton is also human and , like the reader , could not help but feel for Satan as an expression of a part of himself which was let loose in his writings . |
| 11 | She had tried everything , including osteopaths , chiropractors , physiotherapy , traction and , finally , pain-killers which she was taking four times a day , every day . |
| 12 | Now another journey began , one of which she had no memory , no knowledge of the decision to start , but one which she was made powerless by love to turn from . |
| 13 | Educated at home , Alice early on showed evidence of the beauty , tact , and vivacity for which she was to become renowned . |
| 14 | Folly felt almost embarrassed at herself for the ease with which she was finding these excuses — and for the fact that she seemed to have slipped into mental first-name terms with this man who was , after all , a stranger . |
| 15 | Not only was the bedchamber in which she was confined dusty and cold , but her bedlinen and clothing were soiled and damp , her person unwashed , her hair uncombed . |
| 16 | He was energetic in the struggle for Solidarity and finished his parliamentary career as a Solidarity-sponsored senator ( for his native Silesia ) in the newly re-established Senate to which he was elected last summer . |
| 17 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 18 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 19 | Colman 's regiment was the first of the territorials to serve with the regular army in France after the outbreak of World War I , and he was severely wounded by shrapnel in the leg , acquiring the limp which he was to spend much of the remainder of his life and career attempting , often in considerable pain , to conceal from audiences and cameras alike . |
| 20 | My master listened to him half-heartedly , more engrossed in studying a piece of parchment on which he was writing cryptic notes in a cipher even I did not understand . |
| 21 | The truth was that Mauve only wanted to spend time on a large painting of sailing barges which he was getting ready for an exhibition . |
| 22 | His interest in tidal rivers began with work on the River Boyne and culminated in 1839 with re-employment in his native country as engineer to the Clyde River Trust , a post from which he was dismissed six years later after criticizing the trustees in a Glasgow newspaper . |
| 23 | And there is the use of mathematics , in this case the principle of the lever , which he was to use many a time in later work . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I 'm not , ’ he said , gazing up to the ceiling , to which he was sending little puffs of cigarette smoke . |
| 25 | The last race in the series was held a few weeks ago near Gifford in which he was placed fifth . |
| 26 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 27 | He was sitting talking to a middle-aged , bearded man dressed in a curiously outdated suit which he was wearing shirtless , over a vest . |
| 28 | The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at the ceremony , at which he was presented three jars of cherries from the orchard . |
| 29 | Crawford 's performance , for which he was paid 30 a week , also won praise from theatre critics . |
| 30 | Bob , son of the designer of the Norseman , worked with his father one summer flight testing Norseman aircraft , for which he was paid 40 cents an hour , later rising to 52 cents an hour ! |